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Daum: Finally, it's time for gun control
The time is now. Those words have been reverberating in the wake of Friday's shootings in Newtown, Conn. There's at last a sense that the moment has come for some serious action on gun control. Even some of the most reliable 2nd Amendment hawks are...
Tags: MSNBC (tv network), Interior Policy, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Politics, Lobbying
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Gun control proposals ahead
Declaring the time for action overdue, President Barack Obama promised on Wednesday to send Congress broad proposals in January for tightening gun laws and curbing violence after last week’s schoolhouse massacre in Connecticut. Even before...
Tags: Laws, Interior Policy, Health, Kathleen Sebelius, Crime, Law and Justice
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Lieberman, Blumenthal Call In Senate For Action In Wake Of Massacre
The Hartford CourantConnecticut's two U.S. Senators called for action Tuesday to prevent future gun violence like last Friday's Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre of 20 first-graders and six adults by a gunman wielding an assault-style semiautomatic rifle. "We need to...Tags: Richard Blumenthal, Weaponry, Joe Lieberman, Interior Policy, Sandy Hook Elementary School
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Sen. Feinstein expected to head Judiciary Committee
WASHINGTON -- When Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) launched her drive in 1994 to win approval for an assault weapons ban, the relative newcomer to Capitol Hill walked the hallways trying to drum up support. Now, as she prepares for a new fight to pass...
Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Firearms, Interior Policy, Assault, Crime, Law and Justice
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GOP Expands Majority in Governors' Mansions
CNNRepublicans flipped North Carolina, a state that hasn't elected a GOP governor since the 1980s, expanding their national lead over Democrats at the statehouse level, according to CNN projections. Eleven states held governors' races Tuesday. Democrats...Tags: Mitch Daniels, Lawyers, Gary Herbert, Brian Schweitzer, Republican Governors Association
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Democrats maintain control of Senate
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats secured a majority in the Senate on Tuesday, snatching Republican-held seats in Massachusetts and Indiana and turning back fierce, expensive challenges in Virginia, Ohio, Wisconsin and Connecticut to maintain the...
Tags: Washington, DC, Marco Rubio, Todd Akin, Joe Lieberman, Chris Murphy
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Romney wins West Virginia, Manchin re-elected to U.S. Senate
West Virginia voters re-elected Democratic U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin on Tuesday, even as they rejected President Obama’s bid for second term and considered a lengthy ballot that also features the governor’s race, a slew of legislative posts and...Tags: Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice, Voting, Walt Helmick, Newburg
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Manchin wins W.Va. U.S. Senate seat
West Virginia voters chose to send U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin back to Capitol Hill for a full six-year term Tuesday, rejecting a GOP effort to derail his bid by appealing to the state’s low regard for President Obama. A Democrat like Obama, Manchin...
Tags: Tea Party Movement, U.S. Senate, Mitt Romney, Democratic Party, Elections
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Ex-Sen. Bayh keeps options open for his future
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh is keeping his options open for his future as he holds onto about $10 million in campaign money. Bayh, who left the Senate two years ago, has no publicly stated plans for using that cash beyond...
Tags: Joe Donnelly, Elections, Federal Election Commission, Joe Donnelly, Republican Party
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Ceremony marks U.S. district court judge Gina M. Groh's elevation to federal bench
matthew.umstead@herald-mail.comWilliamsport High School graduate and newly appointed U.S. district court judge Gina M. Groh says she is a small town girl who is living “a uniquely American dream.” “I didn’t get here on my own through just hard work and...Tags: Judges, Lawyers, Elections, Crime, Law and Justice, Shelley Moore Capito
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U.S. Senate candidates square off in Shepherdstown
matthew.umstead@herald-mail.comJoe Manchin had help rebuffing repeated assertions Tuesday night by Republican John Raese that West Virginia’s junior Democratic senator was on the wrong political team in Washington. Mountain Party candidate Bob Henry Baber said Raese’s...Tags: Coal, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Energy, Health Care Reform (2009), Elections
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Letters to the Editor - Sept, 23
Property decision wasn’t ‘brutal,’ it was a bargain To the editor: It is indeed a shame when the president of the Washington County Board of County Commissioners considers it a “brutal day” when the county votes to acquire...Tags: Wildlife, Property, Conservation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Real Estate
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